J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter

Slide show

Speaking Club in the center of Window on America in Dnipropetrovsk dedicated to the birthday of a world-known English writer J.K. Rowling (born on the 31st of July 1965), an author of novels of Harry Potter.

The members of the club were offered to watch an informational slide-show. It got acquainted them with a charming woman J.K. Rowling and the heroes of her novels - Harry, Ron, Hermione, ghosts, wizards, magical plants etc. The questions allowed to find out:

- that the literature for children is interesting for adults?

- what symbols were used in the novels?

- why the book became so popular?

- that it's better to read the books than to watch the movies?

- what a morality the books have?

- if the eighth book is written?

- if Joanne Rowling was the best novelist?

The discussion touched the question of great commercial success of the books. The books lied on the table (the gift of the friend of the center American Linda Gray) got interested someone to read them. Our guest from California Joseph Battilega took part in discussion, because he had read 5 books of the Harry Potter series . He noticed that these books are very popular in the USA. And there is a very interesting fact that although quite a lot of Americans don't like to read Joanne Rowling made them to take a book and to read the novels. Besides Josef agreed that the books of Harry Potter could be interesting for the readers of any age because they could find something useful for them in her novels.